I Kinda Came to Another World, but Where’s the Way Home?

"Ma, maybe Iris' torture hobby is my influence? There was a little bit of a mistake on that kid's birthday, and I'm supposed to give him a book called The History of Torture. And then Iris, who was interested in torture, said, what... the person who forgave his heart, I mean... the person who found out that if he had some words or deeds, he would forgive me... it wasn't torture, but he wanted to abuse me, didn't he? Can I do it? That's okay, right? You're acting like that, but you're not gonna do it, are you? Well, I've already stepped on it, kicked it, slapped it... me and Alicia were about to be targeted, but we managed to escape because we were somewhat more technically talented in combat than that kid."

Well, Olivia talks about her cruelty and Iris' torture hobbies in the torture room. Shouldn't it be time to stop you? Because Iris's sexuality is leaking to outsiders, right? I wonder if they're advising you, that you shouldn't be too close.

Even so, that kid's going to step on it and kick it, even though he's surprised. It doesn't seem so strong in stats, so I guess it won't do much damage to adventurers and knights, but it'll be a reward in some industries, won't it?

Then... those SS people were so devoted to Iris... no, no, that's not true, 'cause they're knights, right? There's no way there's any absurdity in wanting to be stomped, kicked or slapped by such a 16-year-old girl.

There's no way, is there?

"Even so... I don't know why, but a lot of people try to like Iris. Like our SS..."

"Is this castle full of perverts?"

"Uh, but once Iris hated me. Somehow, unlike the favored guy, you got hung up all over the torture equipment around here. My neck is full of guillotine... and I had a hard time forgiving the frenzied Iris."

Olivia said that as she moved her hands sideways in front of her neck.

Apparently, Iris shouldn't piss you off. Correctly, it means you shouldn't be involved with that kid. If they like it, they'll fit into SM play, and if they disgust you, they'll smash you to death with torture. That's a terrible pervert.

Could the cooking clothes she was wearing be a substitute for white clothes? Something to keep you from getting blood back?

But my neck, okay. Let's not see Iris again. That's probably the same race as Leila. Because if they like it, they'll take you to this room using princess privileges and stuff.

"So, what are you doing here?

and there, get to the point.

Leave Iris's story aside for once, and Olivia has asked me why I broke into the castle. I guess the reason I was originally brought to this torture room is to talk to someone else so they wouldn't ask me, and Alicia asked me, so it stinks to explain the same thing, but I need to explain it properly.

Blah, blah. I wonder if there was only such a dim torture room.

And I told Olivia the same story I told Alicia. About the mansion, about my people being kidnapped, that's why I'm here to find out about that mansion, that I've already spoken to Alicia, all of it.

"Heh... that gray-haired red-eyed kid too? From what I've seen, I thought that kid was pretty strong, huh?

"Yeah, honestly, I can't beat Leila either. You can't lose."

"Still, you mean they took him away easily... they're pretty fierce too"

Olivia, listening to me, discusses that with her hands on her chin. To be honest, I can't even hit my hand more than I can't see who they are or who they are... and it's the neck that can't get my hands on that mansion badly either. Leila was easily taken away, too, or at least more than Leila in strength.

Then even I can't win. [M] It would be compatible, but I'll leave that to luck. It's not something I can tell unless I'm relative.

That's why I can't get my hands on the detour... and I don't have much experience fighting from myself, so how did I work out the operation?

"Even so, that mansion... then I know some of it too. Anything, when the first queen died a little... you asked Alicia too, didn't you? That there was a 'rumor' in that mansion"

"Yeah."

"Since it was a project my sister wanted to solve - I've been doing a lot of research to help too... when the rumors started, that mansion was deserted because the first queen died... and it seems to have become a safe house for 'orphans'"

Orphans? Sure, that place is like that now, but the ground wouldn't have rotted in the days when the first queen died, and the graves would have been creepy, but the mansion should have been beautiful enough for people to live in.

Then it would have been a great condition to dwell on one or two orphans, or a mansion that creeps out the grave and keeps people away.

Then... it may be that orphan who killed the people who came to clean in admiration of the first queen. Even children can't kill one or two of the average people if they use a little head. Is that where the rumors came from?

"It's about you, so you're guessing, right? I wonder if the source of the rumor is the orphan."

"Yeah, you are. I think so too."

"So, about 60 years from there? Right before the second generation of brave men was summoned... there's a time when another 'rumor' broke out in that mansion"

Another rumor?

There was not only a rumor that 'with the curse of the first queen, if you approach the mansion, you will die', there was another rumor that was completely different?

Besides, if it's 60 years from now, maybe the Kingdom of Luxhide is the second generation...... if it sucks, it should be the third generation of kings or queens. And after the first brave man defeated the demon king and returned... when the second generation wasn't called, is that a story about a time when no brave man exists in this world?

Olivia told me about the 'rumor'.

"It seems that it was also the residence of the orphans by then... a group of several people who appeared at the fudge regularly visited that mansion. That's where the rumors come from."

"Yeah."

"'That group is an undead group created by the Queen's curse,' they rumored. Well, actually, that group was just showing up at a few moments, and it looks like he's gone for a little while. The rumor itself disappeared immediately... but I can't believe it came from around here - that the mansion is no longer the only one."

What's this all about? The mansion is no longer a normal mansion? I mean, since then? I guess that means there's a deep mist hanging on that mansion and it's starting to give off a creepy vibe.

"No one has stopped leaning on that mansion since then, including orphans. Well, oddly enough, the ground has rotted and I'm wrapped up in that deep mist."

"You know me well enough."

"It's part of the Rookeshide kingdom in a place like that, and it's the first queen's mansion... it looks like the old kings and queens wanted to get rid of rumors about that mansion or something, too? There are a few records books in this castle's library."

But then you don't know extra, do you?

"The Queen's Curse," "The Orphan," "The Second Rumor That Came Out About 60 Years Later," "The Mysterious Groups"... and "The Mansion Turned Into A Creepy Mansion"... I'm pretty sure the cause of that fog, creepy atmosphere, and rotten soil is that mysterious group... then what's that voice you heard coming from that mansion? What did that group do to that mansion?

And the fact that the orphans stopped dropping by... means that even the orphans, who had made it their residence in some bad environment, decided they couldn't 'live' in that mansion.

Then I'm sure the cause is that there was something more life-threatening than fog or the smell of rotten soil.

Is that - the main thing about that voice... or was there another factor...

"But, well, I'm glad you didn't make Alicia your collaborator."

"Hmm?"

"That mansion smells dangerous with just such fragmented information... because there's no way to get my precious sister involved in a place like that... if only Tight had taken Alicia to that mansion... I would never have forgiven you, would I? So if Alicia was going to get hurt, I would have executed you as the first princess."

I'm not kidding inside when they say it in the torture room. That would mean Olivia cares about Alicia and Iris.

Well, even for me, I'm not taking Alicia to the mansion, and if you don't follow me and I tell you to follow me, I'll stun you once and send you back to the castle.

Well, even if that's the case, yeah. I couldn't understand the mansion any more. Anyway, it was a long time ago, so there's too much ambiguity.

I don't know how long the Lord of that voice has been around. Is it very recent... or is it from a time when Olivia says the mansion has degenerated... since when the hell?

Still... if it was the latter, the Lord of that voice would definitely not be human.

……

"Hmm? What's up, tough?

"Mm-hmm, nothing. It's time to go home. Alicia forgave me for breaking and entering."

"Huh? Oh, yeah, okay"

That's what I say and get up. I want to get out of this dim room because it also stuffs my breath, and I gathered as much information as I could grab in this castle. Olivia didn't expect more information from you than Alicia, but that was surprising.

And then, well, I'm just leaving this castle so I don't see Iris. We have to make sure we don't see each other by mistake, and if we get involved, it's going to stink a lot at that point.

I'll see you later.

That's what I said and got out of the dim room.

We took the road that led to the cabin and headed up the stairs back to the hallway with the red carpet.

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After that, Orange Sound, who left the castle safely, looked back at the castle after going outside.

And he sighed as he looked up at the big castle. There was a lot of information obtained, but there was not enough conclusive information. I was able to learn about the history of that mansion, as well as the various rumors surrounding it and the actions of the people around me.

Still, it's not enough. How many pieces of information did I not get for orange noise?

But I can't be collecting any more relaxed information.

Alicia's story is that investigators came back as abolitionists. If Leila and the others have followed a similar path, it is possible that the power of orange noise cannot be undone.

Dran, who was previously made obsolete by the Demon King, was the late obsolescence that destroyed the circuitry of his brain. In other words, it's like being scratched in the brain so hard that you can't think properly.

That's why putting it back before it was done allowed me to think normally, and Doran, who became an abolitionist, was also able to regain his self. I mean, orange noise didn't rewind Doran's mental state, it just rewinded his brain state so he could think.

In other words, the unwinding of orange sounds does not work if you are made into a neurosis or depressed state by hunting down the spirit and placing mental shock or stress on it.

No matter how orange sounds, I've never seen the state of others' spirits, and I can't grasp them, because I can't touch them. Where I scratched my feet, I can't rewind 'people's emotions and hearts'.

- Then we need to move before Leila and the others are decisively destroyed.

That's what Orange Sound decided.

"... if we don't have any information about them, we'll have to collect it from them."

Squeeze, return your heels. Turn your back on the castle, he leaves. We've already decided where we're headed, we don't have any information, we don't know who they are. Still, if you don't go, you'll lose something important again.

Then,

"Let's go, the tactics are... let's think in bump production"

The only road left now will have to go to that creepy mansion.

Surrounded by fog, you stand on rotten ground, and you hear a tall voice like a creepy speaker, to that creepy mansion everywhere.

"Haha, it's easy - you can't lose by adding and subtracting creeps"

The orange noise laughed thinly and creepy so.